Yeah, post-shopping is pretty much always a mistake.

Yup, here’s the site I bought mine from; the promotion should be the same with all the retailers listed on this page. (It’s probably worth noting that I’m in the UK; it could be different elsewhere.)

It came! Of course, I won’t get to play The Witcher until next week, or Batman until June, but still!

Nope, I meant pithy. It would’ve been exceedingly terse, brief and, well, pithy. Thankfully, I actually got my codes about half an hour ago.

It ought to whisper ‘Yes’! I mean, Batman: Arkham Knight and The Witcher 3? That’s £80’s worth of games, for nothing! And the 970 is being offered at some fantastically low prices at the mo.

I feel like I’m tooting my own horn somewhat, but the Peugeot 106 represented the end of two significant eras.

Geralt’s general grumpiness is possibly my favourite aspect of his character. He does sort of have a kid, in Ciri, though it is, as you say, impossible for him to have blood-related offspring.

I’d read them, personally, as I imagine you’d be missing out on a lot of the nuance to Ciri and Yennefer’s relationships with Geralt otherwise. They’re very entertaining books in their own right, besides.

I dug out an old hard drive purely for the sake of recovering my Witcher 2 saves, so that’s a little disappointing to hear—particularly as I never got the tattoo from Roache in the first place.

Good point. It does have a bit of that Gundam Turn A/Scrapped Princess vibe.

As luck would have it, I just got my codes a couple of minutes ago. I’m about to enter them.

I actually have—looking back at my comment, it would appear that I phrased things rather poorly. What I meant to say was that I didn’t feel like I was missing out on much having not finished The Witcher 1 before starting 2. I loved 2.

Here, take this.

I occasionally used Cat, but you’re completely correct—the potions really weren’t necessary in the vast majority of cases.

I’d been specifically holding off until a good pack-in deal came along. I was still, for the most part, happy with my old AMD 6970, so I could probably have waited for the next generation of Nvidia cards if it came down to it.

Well, it depends. In this specific scenario, I only bought the 970 now - I had been thinking of holding off until the 1000-series, or whatever Nvidia end up calling it - because it came with two games I knew I’d end up buying anyway, thereby saving me the not-inconsiderable sum of about eighty quid. If it hadn’t been…

Fantasy middle ages. Not that it has anything to do with beard grooming, but they actually know what DNA is in the Witcher-verse. The Witchers themselves are explicitly mutants.

Fallout-style, this time.

I couldn’t get on with the first Witcher game, and I didn’t feel like I was missing much with 2... I’m not sure if the same’ll be true of this, though. 2 isn’t nearly as clunky as one, so it might be worth playing that first. I think it might be on-sale on GOG at the mo.

I’m supposed to be getting a code for this - along with Batman: Arkham Knight - with my shiny new GTX 970. They’d better send the bloody email before release day; if not, I’m going to write an extremely pithy letter to customer support.